Just when it seems that the Palestinian people cannot not be more ill-served by its so-called "official leadership," Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshal have again proved their ineptitude. The question is, are...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 16, 2011
After joining the Israeli military, Stan Hoffman understood that he had volunteered to serve the Jewish homeland-yet the 19-year-old native St. Louisan had never felt farther from home. "The families would come and visit their kids," recalled the Ladue...
NEW YORK - Noam Shalit, the father of captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, wants his son's plight to be part of the discussion of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations in September.In his view, Shalit's release should be a precondition of any vote...
"I sent the club a wire stating, ‘Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.'" - Groucho MarxGroucho's form of comedy can best be described as calculated anarchy. He and his brothers struck fiercely...
Membership in the United Nations is open to all other peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained in the present Charter and, in the judgment of the organization, are able and willing to carry out those obligations. What is "peace-loving"?Peace...
The Verizon guy’s mantra is of course intended to demonstrate the breadth of the company’s phone reception. But if you think of the hordes that always accompany him on his missions as hard-core ideologues, the commercials start to look like metaphors...
JERUSALEM — Michal Naamani went to Jerusalem from her home in a town near Kfar Saba on Friday to hand out yellow ribbons to passersby and bumper stickers to motorists reading "Gilad is alive." A high school teacher, Naamani felt she wanted to do something...
Faculty: Block Yeshiva is a community treasureWe, the general studies facilities at Louis and Sarah Block Yeshiva High School, would like to share some of our impressions with the St. Louis Jewish community.Collectively we have invested over 150 years...
In Texas Hold ‘Em parlance, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has gone all in. In his Monday opinion piece in the New York Times, Abbas has said to the world that the future of Israel doesn't matter one iota. In essence, he's proven that...
Let's do some logic:FACT A: Before the exceptional United States Special Forces mission that led to the slaying of Osama bin Laden, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas reached a historic agreement about cooperation.FACT A-1: Hamas does not renounce violence...
One of the most powerful and memorable books I ever read was "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett, which provides glimpses into the relationships between black and white women in 1962 Mississippi. After I finished the book, I spent a lot of time thinking about...
The announcement of a Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement is a by-product of the Arab Spring, and the Palestinian chess game to position the public of both the West Bank and Gaza Strip for Palestinian statehood. The questions that the deal raises are...
